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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Potomac > Langley. No question.  [/quote]

I don't get it.  Why spend big bucks for high school? I went to some of the best universities in the nation that DCUM types rave about.  I was a poor kid from a Chicago area public high school with a singler mother who never went to college.  Worked hard and was well prepared. That was what mattered. My two kids went to Princeton.  Both attemded FCPS public schools.  I could never fathom the rationale behind private school.  My so-called prestige top 10 university had plenty of prep school kids, and they by and large were no better academically than the public school kids.

I could see a rationale for kids with special needs of some kind - perhaps social adjustment -  but for the typical well adjusted kid FCPS schools do just fine.  [/quote]

They’re paying for the privilege to be with only upper class well-behaved students. And more personal attention, guidance counselors with connections to elite colleges, making friends with other well-connected families.[/quote]

We are zoned for Langley and have toured Potomac. I don’t disagree about the personal attention but the college admissions at Potomac don’t seem superior to Langley and McLean High. All those kids going to UVA, VT and W&M could have gone to some SLAC. [/quote]

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The college outcomes aren't any different at all.  [/quote]

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